The HCI is a component of the UN’s E-Government Development Index, together with the Online Service Index and the Telecommunication Infrastructure Index.
Addressing a meeting with the National Assembly’s Committee for Culture and Education on October 17, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son proposed that the legislature ensure that a minimum of 20 per cent of total national budget expenditure is set aside for education. Despite the difficulties caused by the pandemic, the education sector has posted a range of positive results. In the ranking of countries in terms of education in 2021, Vietnam was 59th, up five places compared to 2020.
Deputy Minister of Education and Training Hoang Minh Son chaired a working session with many ministries, branches, and provincial people’s committees on September 28 to develop a project training high-quality human resources for technology development. A representative from the Department of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education and Training said the project will focus on attracting businesses to participate in high-tech human resources training.
Ten cooperative agreements were signed at the Vietnam - US Education Cooperation Forum in the US on September 21 between representatives of educational management agencies and educational institutions and corporations in the two countries. Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said that to make a dramatic change in human resources development, Vietnam has decided to strengthen international education integration and promote investment in the country.
Within the framework of his visit to the US, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son and his delegation met with US partners such as the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the Intel Corporation on September 21. The Ministry of Education and Training and ETS signed a third cooperation agreement, with ETS committing to promoting equality and the quality of education in Vietnam with testing and assessments. According to Mr. Son, Vietnam will send people to the US to attend training courses and ETS can send experts to Vietnam to help. At her meeting with the Vietnamese delegation, Ms. Sara Kemp, Vice President of the Intel Corporation, affirmed that Vietnam is an important partner of the group and it highly values its relationship with the country. Mr. Son expressed a desire to strengthen cooperation with businesses in information technology, especially Intel.
The Hanoi Department of Education and Training has released a list of foreign-invested educational institutions in the city, including seven multi-level schools and 23 pre-schools.
Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Van Phuc has said that Vietnam’s education transformation will focus on three pillars: transforming the governance system, transforming the school environment from “static” to “dynamic”, and digital transformation.
Ascend Vietnam Ventures (AVV)'s Alpha Fund is looking for Vietnamese startups with potential in a variety of industries, especially those in financial inclusion, education, and the future of work. By the end of 2023, the Fund plans to be investing $2 million each in 25 seed-stage startups.
Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son told the third “Vietnam-Hungary Higher Education Cooperation Conference” on June 27 in the Hungarian capital Budapest that universities in the two countries have expressed a willingness to expand cooperation, focusing on medicine, pharmacology, basic science, agricultural science, and digital transformation. In addition, nine cooperative MoUs between universities in the two countries were also signed in the presence of National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, who is visiting Hungary.
The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) is developing the “Strategic Framework for Higher Education Development for the 2021-2030 Period and Vision to 2045”, in which higher education is to become a core competitive strength of Vietnam and a key driving force of the country’s development.